Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 16 September 1936 — Page 3

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Driving Hints

BY NATL SAFETY COUNCIL

WEDNESDAY, SEPT. 16, 1936 — ee ___. THE INDIANAR

ig oon WeTiE | CHURCH AID This Is the Cat’s Meow !—These Cats Patrol CORN IN STATE ——— | “GAINS SLIGHTLY

the Store While Every One’s Asleep—But Mice ~ WITH RAINFALL

Crop Is Only 47 Per Cent.

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UNDERWRITERS ~ SAY INSURANCE MONEY IS SAFE

Reply to ‘Fright’ Issue of | Col. Knox After Talk | Normal, Purdue With Roosevelt. | Experts Say.

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M. E. PASTORS HOLD BUSINESS SESSION TODAY

| Temperance Rally Planned as Ministers Meet at Connersville.

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WINDSHIELDS IRTY windshields are not only ; a hazard in themselves, beTimes Special : cause they decrease visibility, but LAFAYETTE, Ind., Sept. 16.—Due | CONNERSVILLE, Ind. Sept. 16.| they also greatly increase the glare 3 to increased rainfall in parts of the | —Business meetings were to fea-| from headlights from approaching | state, Indiana corn more than held i ture the second-day sessions of the cars. | its own during August despite con- | F : fifth annual Indiana Methodist The windshield wiper is one of tinuation of hot weather, according | Church Conference here today. the most important safety devices to the monthly crop report by Pur- | Ministers and laymen throughout | on your car. Keep it in good consouthern Indiana opened the six- | dition, so that it will be ready in

due University and the United | tit Lm States Department of Agriculture. day assembly yesterday. ah Shengency. os bs fein Dac

(Editorial, Page 12) Times Special :

BY THOMAS L. STOKES Times Staff Writer i WASHINGTON, Sept. 16—Out of | the mouths of big insurance com- | pany executives President Roosevelt. had an answer today to the! “fright” issue raised originally by |

‘Mrs. Ruth Estes (above) has been appointed assistant to the

Frank Knox, Republican vice presi- | : 2 !

dential candidate, who declared in a campaign speech that “today no life insurance policy is secure: no savings account safe.”

Eight insurance company heads. |

all Republicans, joined in a state- | ment which reported an increase | of . three billion dollars in com-| bined assets of life insurance companies since Jan. 1. 1933, the total | now being $23.915.000,000: two mil- | lion more policies now in force] than four years ago: a pronounced | improvement in general conditions, | reflected in reduction of loans to pplicy holders, and then concluded: | “There can be no doubt, all re-| ports to the contrary notwithstand- | Ing, that American citizens who | hold life insurance policies issued | by insurance companies in the! United States possess the safest of | all possible securities.” : This was about as strong lan- | guage as they cquid use in refuting | Col. Knox's Sens which, since | he made it Sept. 5 at Allentown. | Pa.. has beensbacked hy Republican | National Chairman John {Hamilton | fad the Republican National Com- | mittee, evidently with the purpose! of injecting a fear issue such as! Herbert Hoover sought to raise in| the closing days of the 1932 cam- | paign in his Madison Square Garden speech about grass growing in the streets. ’ President Roosevelt, the insurance men, Knox charge at a press conference | by quoting a bit of Latin, “Res ipsa | loquitur,” which he translated as meaning: “It speaks for itself.” Reporting on the meeting, President Roosevelt explained that the Knox charge had not been dis-| cussed, but that, as the executives] left, his office ge jocularly called to | remind them "that

after seeing |

reporters would | bé waiting outside and would prob- | ably inauire about the political aspects of the conference.

Politics Denied

This explained, perhaps. the taciturnity of the insurance men as they. threaded their way through ene of the largest gathering of cor-| respondents at a single spot in Washington in recent months. Those who would open their mouths at all denied any political significance to the meeting. i The conference was one of a series arranged with business executives of all types some weeks ago, but,

| were Frederick H. Ecker, chairman; |

tossed off the!

helping this and other companies to overcome the effects .of the depression and make progress.” i Others attending the conference

I.erov A. Lincoln, president, and D. Craig, vice president, Metropoli- | tan Life; Thomas A. Buckner, presi- | dent, New York Life: Michael J. Cleary. president, Northwestern Mutual Life Insurance Co. Milwaukee: L. Edmund Zacher, presidsnt, Travelers Insurance Co., Hartford, | and Guy W. Cox, president, John Hancock Mutual Life Insurance Co, Boston. President Roosevelt reciprocated | by complimenting the executives for | their successful stewardship and] their contribution toward security.

No Encroachment

| tificates.

lon disposition of money recovered |

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DRIVER DISMISSAL POWER IS UPHELD

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The State Safety Department was | advised by Atty., Gen. Philip Lutz | Jr. today that it legally could dis-| charge any school bus driver for in- | competency or negligence. A ruling on the extent of the] State Safety Department's jurisdic- |

| tion over bus drivers was asked by | | Donald Stiver, state safety director. |

Mr. Lutz also said there is no pro- | vision in the law requiring bus driv- | ers to provide annual health cer-

The attorney general also ruled |

The crop was reported 47 per cent

{of normal on Sept. 1, against 46

BY JOE COLLIER

NCE ‘upon a time a cat had kittens on a bolt of $4.90-a-vard silk during a sale at L. S. Ayres & Co. that almost put a stop to the store employing mama cats. pt ’ Mama and kittens did well, but the episode took the bolt of silk out of play. In addition, the affair created a personnel problem which was solved by the store giving. away kittens to any employe who wanted ‘'em—gave ‘em away as long as they lasted. Today two cats are on duty at Ayres—regular employes. One is Tom, the other Jerry. Tom patrols the basement and first five floors. Jerry roams the upper floors. They go on duty after the store hours and remain until it opens the next morning. ® Protect Own Lairs . Then they have breakfast of liver or salmon and ilk and go to sleep for the day. If, during the night, one of the cats should be so incautious as to get on a floor the other roams there would be a cat fight. It has happened. The cats go to the elevator door, meow, and are let on by the night watchmen. They meow at the floor they want off. They prowl about until they are tired of that floor, go back to the elevator, meow, and are picked up to be taken to another. One of the night watchmen, aroused over what he thought was a shade too much intelligencs to be allotted a cat, hurried to a high official of the store once and blurted out: “Mr. ——, them cats can read writin’.” They are the only animal employes left, now that the horses have been retired in favor of trucks. And they are the. only employes that can get meals out of the Ayres kitchens without signing a check—except, maybs, Mr. Ayres himself, Alley Breed Preferred The cats chosen for duty are never pedigreed. They are alley cats. When more cats are necessary, the word goes out among some employes and next morning several prospects are brought in.

| per cent normal Aug. 1. Estimated | yield this season is 25 bushels an | acre, whereas the average for the last 10 years was 346 bushels an | acre. State production of 111,900, - | 000 bushels is predicted for 1936, | compared with approximately 160,000,000 bushels last year, Intense heat during August caused | some'corn to ripen | most of the crop was found well | eared in. spite of uneven size, the | bulletin said. Best corn was found {in the northeastern part of the | state. The nérthwest and south- | west sections seemed hardest hit by | drought. : August rainfall was above normal

| iu the northern part of the state. |

| tory yield was forecast for potatoes |

| where little rain fell, dropped six:

ing at 1,892,000 tons.. Alfalfa showed |

{a seven-point improvement. Estimated clover and timothy yields | were .8 tons-an acre, compared with {1.15 tons last year. ; Soybeans were reported exceedingly uneven and dependent entirely on future rainfall. Estimated production was 3,094,000 bushels,

prematurely, but

pastor of the Third Christian Church, 17th and Broadway-sts. She came here from the First Christian Church, Union City, Ind., where she served two years as director of Christian education,

year.

mated production of 50,000 bushels.

$10,000,000 Corn Loan (Plan Announced

i Bit United Press .

WASHINGTON, Sept. 16.—A $10.000,000 corn loan program, whici for the first time provides seed corn

areas adequate see dfor planting next spring, was announced today by Secretary of Agriculture Henry A. Wallace. The program provides for types of loans on farm-stored seed corn: A loan of $1.75 a bushel on field selected corn which meets the proper germination and storage requirements and a loan of 55 cents a bushel on good quality and propeily stored cribbed corn which can be sorted for seed at a later date. The loan agreement provides an option right for purchase by the government at a rate considerably above the loan value amount. The interest rate will be four per cent.

BUTLER ENROLLMENT GAINS 31 PER CENT

A total of 489 freshmen are enrolled at Butler University, an in-

registration has not pleted. : : Instruction in day classes began Monday, and night classes are being opened throughout the week.

Eleven night. courses for business

| and professional men and women

are available.

compared with 5,899,000 bushels last |

A 324,000-bushel apple crop was estimated. Pears showed the usual | decline for the month. with an esti- |

two |

crease of 31 per cent over last fall, | it was announced today. Upperclass | been com- |

Dr. Frederick T. Keeny, retired Atlanta (Ga.) bishop, was to speak today. The Lord's Supper sacrament is to be observed following Dr. Keeny's address.

| gram were to include an address by { the Rev. L. C. Jeffrey: Princeton, and an anniversary meeting of the ; Board of Home Missions. Today's sessions were to close with a temperance rally under the direction { loon League superintendent. |

TRUCKMEN STRIKE;

Other events on tne morning pro- |

of Dr. L. E. York, Indiana Anti-Sa-| hoe)

ASK PAY INCREASE

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rain comes pouring down. To reduce the annoyance of glaring headlights, make it a habit to clean the glass in your windshield each evening. You will find this a great help. 5

MARION COUNTY TRAFFIC . TOLL TO DATE : 1936 : 1935 TRAFFIC ARRESTS September 15

Running red light Running preferential street ... Reckless driving Drunken driving Others except parking

TRAFFIC ACCIDENTS Accidents

| i | Approximately 80 employes of the | Injured

loans to assure farmers in drought | Indianapolis terminal of Keeshin |

{| Motor Express, Inc. Delaware and South-sts, were on strike today. Strikers included 15 city truck { drivers, 30 dock men and between 35 and 40 cross-country truck drivers. Company officials said road drivers asked $30 pay for a 48-hour week. They now receive $25 for a 50-hour week, officials said. Labor union members said the road drivers were asking $36 pay for a 48-hour week and time and a half for overtime. They have been receiving $21.60 a week, they said. Dock workers, company officials said, asked 45 cents an hour and a guarantee of working 48 hours a week, as against the current rate of 40 cents an hour with no hour guarantee. Union men said the dock workers were asking $27.50 a week, with time and a half for overtime, snd that they had been receiving $21.60 tor 50 hours or more a week. Harry Gordy, company vice president in charge of operations, arrived here from Cleveland this morning and was reported conferring with union officials.

| DIES AT FRANKLIN | FRANKLIN, Ind. Sept. 16.—Jar- { vis A. Alexander, 76, former Demo- | cratic county chairman and school | and park ‘board member, died in his ' home here yesterday.

50 UNITED BRETHREN OFFICIALS MEET. HERE

More than 50 ministers and ofeficials of the United Brethren Church White River Conference,

met in the Y. M. C. A. today to formulate plans for the annual White River meeting in Indianapolis, which has been set tentatively for Oct. 6. : The White River meeting at that time also is to constitute a regional conference with church leaders from six districts. Members of district cabinets were to attend today's meeting. The Conference Board on Christian Education also was to meet to outline plans for its program during the annual convention.

MAJ. STEWART LEAVES

Maj. David L. Stewart of the medical corps at Fort Benjamin Harrison, has been transferred to duty at Western Reserve Univer= sity in Cleveland, O., according to orders: issued from Washington, Maj. Stewart has been stationed at

Fort Harrison for two years, have

ing come here from Paris, France.

During the conference, the Pres- | ident assured his guests that the | government had no intention of en- | | croaching on the insurance com- | paid to pensioners after they come The insurance officials, in their | pany business. | into some property, the state must joint statement, praised the Admin-; He solicited their interest in sale | turn 50 per cent of it back to the istration for its help through vari-| by private insurance companies of | Federal government, which furnishes ous lending agencies, including pur- | annuities in small units to persons that amount originally, Mr. Lutz chase by the Farm Credit Adminis-| of moderate means, as a supplement ruled. tration ‘of $291,792500 in farm | to the Social Security Act. All the The same procedure must be folmortgages; refinancing of $188,600,- | insurance company heads, he said | jowed, he said, when _a pensioner 000 of mortgages' on small homes, | later, expressed their approval of | dies and money is recovered. and RFC loans to insurance ‘com- | the social security program. | This ruling was asked by Wayne panies of $42,800,000. | The President, during the confer- | coy, state welfare director. = Praises Administration | ence, stressed the necessity of in-| He F. Williams, president of the West- | calling that such loans had been | j ern and Southern Life Insurance| made in certain parts of the coun- | eral government through its vari- He also enlisted their aid in tak- | : Sh b. cr | BRAZIL. - Ind., Sept. 16—Five ous relief an ubl , -iing s of tI Ce: d public health agen g some ie burden of financing townships in Clay County are under | - j hounced today. “The present scourge of rabies has

coming just at this time, when the Knox charge still was being hurled about, it served a very effective political purpose.

from pensioners -at their death or after they become self-supporting. “When the state recovers money

Paul White, Negro porter, selects and trains the felines but he won't tell how, ; “It's kinda like a man training animals-in a circus,” he explained. “A fellow doesn’t like to give the secret away.” Years ago mice were quite a problem in department stores. They would eat, for instdmee, bird seed, which the stores keep ex? clusively to sell. Stores tried ferrets, but ferrets made quick catches and then weni to sleep, contented. Some one thought of cats and they've been around ever since. The current Tom and Jerry at Ayres each "is 4 months old, and, with good iuck, will be around for about eight more vears.

STATE COMMISSION RAPS ‘TAX FERRETS’

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| surance companies not lending on In a separate statement, Charles | speculative values of farm lands, reCo.. concluded: try in the past. The insurance heads | — j “I feel that the fight of the Fed- | acquiesced in this view, he said. F Yimes Speci cies against want, disease and de- | homes now borne by the Federal ; . 3 5 Dx ie . : “| quarantine for rabies, County Health | spair has been a great factor in' Housing Administration. |q es # . | ae Se Eg > rousing 2 Sa | Commissioner Dr. J. L. Lambert an- |

IN INDIA

MEETINGS TODAY

Kiwanis Club, luncheon, Columbia Club, | nnn .

n Lions Club, luncheon, Hotel Washington, noon

Purdue Alumni Association, luncheon, | Hotel Severin, noon. i Twelfth District, American Legion, luncheon, 136’; N, Delaware-st, noon. {

MEETINGS TOMORROW Feal Estate Board, luncheon, Hotel Washington, noon. Advertising Club of Indianapolis, luncheon, Columbia Club, noon. Engineering Society, luncheon, Board of Trade, noon > } Sigma Chi, luncheon, Board of Trade, | noon } American Business Club, luncheon, Board | of Trade, noon. ! Acacia, luncheon, Board of Trade. noon. | Sigma Nu, luncheon, Hotel Washington. | noon. > i Indiana Motor Traffic Association, luncheon, Hotel Antlers, noon.

MARRIAGE LICENSES

{Incorrect addresses frequently are i given to the Marriage License Bureau | deliberately. The Times in printing the | official list assumes no responsibility for sueh addresses.)

William Leon Gebhardt. 21. of 9843 Bellst. taxicab driver, and Virginia l.. Gibson, 20, of 942 Bell-st. | Charles Arthur Lahey. 25 of 951 E Georgia-st, silk factory worker, and Edith Agnes Riley, 19. of 25 N. Oriental-st. Charles Henry Luttrell, 34. of 1316!; E 18th-st. ilor, and Lula Mae Farmer, 30 | of 1318% st. i Edwar 53, 8. Meridian-st, laborer, and Hazel Madline ‘McCullough 38. of 639 8. Delaware-st, maid. Kenneth Webster Ball. 28. of 6179 Bur-lington-av, minister. Miller, 29, of 4558 Guilford-av John G. Book, age not listed, of 1338 Olive-st, laborer, and Lulu E. Richardson. ag* not listed. of 322 Prospect-st Melvin P. Bracken. 19. of 419 Keichamst. laborer, and Mamie Alice Ganstine, 13, of 3108 W, North-st ; Elgin Omer Wiggins, 21, of 351 N. Sher-! man-dr, butcher. and Mildred McClain, 186 of 309 Dorman-st Jack Bowman Nickel, 24 of 2102 BroadWAY. sanitary engineer, and Lois Rousseau, 24 of 3340 N. Meridian-st. bacteriologist Charles A. Moore. 35. of 23 E. St. Josephst. custodian, and Mattie Gurnette, 29, of | 131 W. 1llth-st, maid Henry Jamison, 41 waiter. and Cora Freeman, 41, diana-ay, maid.

of 638 Indiana-av, of 448 In- |

BIRTHS Borys ‘

Irving. Edna LeGacy. 252 Avon John. Alta Tabler, 348 S. Walcott, | Harry. Marie. Thibo, Coleman George, Ana Topuzu, Coleman. Ld Edward, Gertrude English, St. Vincent's Rea, Sarah Willlams, St. Vincent's. Michael, Fanchon King, St. Vincent's, | Cilfford, Dovie Fleece, St. Vincent's. ! Joseph, Martha Hopkins, City. | Svivester, Theima Hughes City, Edward. Virginia Pritz, City. | Raymond, Frances Reel (ity. | Clarence. Elsie Gentry. City. { Horace, Beatrice Massey, 1355 English. i James, Inez Stephenson. Methodist. : Benjamin, Wauneta Stoker, Methodist!

Hospital

Gordon, Isabelle Ritter, Methodist Hos-

pital i

Girls Philip. Irma Baldauf, Coleman Hospital Lioyd. Mary Connell. Coleman Hospital. . Bella Gordon, 430 Limestone. | Richard, Louise Huggins, Coleman Hos- |

pital. i

St. rald. Lena Tate, City Hospital.

Vera Anderson, Vincent's

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1 New Lloyd, Gladvs Montgomery. City Hospital. | Okla. City John, * Omaha

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. Anna Horner, i . pit Sam, Nellie Watters, Methodist Has- | Pittsbu

i pital,

| carcinoma,

Rcute myocarditis,

| night.

and Milda Cynthia |

{ and north,

{ east,

{| cooler tonight.

| west and ¢

| Sen Anton) ‘Tex 6) n a, « Cloudy a | = Clear

NAPO] IS: |'cost the county entirely too much 4 | for antitoxin for those who have

William. Ruth Edmonds. Methodist Hospital Thurman, Hospital.

Brookie Barker, Methodist

DEATHS Irene Louise Moore, 35. Methodist Hos-

intestinal obstruction. Charles F. Baker, 25, 1441 S. Meridian,

Methodist

| chronic intestitial nephritis

Minnie Hospital, Alice Kerr, hemorrhage. - William Cyrus Armstrong, 56, Methodist Hospital, cirrhosis of liver. William Norsingle, 54, rheumatic heart disease. Ella McNamara, 62, 1833 Fletcher, hypostatic pneumonia > James Gordon Rogers, 47. ket, pulmonary tuberculosis Minnie : M. Brock, 61. 3315 Graceland,

34, City

Valentine Adler, 73, cerebral hemorrhage.

76, 1626 Central, cerebral |

City Hospital, | 1135 E. MarBlanche

Gardner, Hospital,

: | OFFICIAL WEATHER

U. 8. Weather Bureau

INDIANAPOLIS FORECAST: Show i afternoon and tonight: much or hs Tomorrow partly cloudy and cooler.

Sunrise « 5:27 | Sunset . 5:33 TEMPERATURE Sept. 16, 1935

- 66 inm...... —Today— 5

BARMOETER Tam . 30.13 Precipitation 24 hrs. end 5 3 Total precipitation since 8 1 Deficiency since Jan. 1 .. ;

MIDWEST FORECAST Indiana—Showers night. Thursday and cooler east treme south. Mlineis—Cloudy, thundershowers sout Thursday

RR Mm...

apd -much cooler tod fair northwest, cloudy and south, showers ex- |

becoming fair north. | h portion, much cooler ! ase generally fair central re showers extreme south, cosler | Lower Michigan—Cloudy, showers soutk- | much cooler ‘tonight except extreme | northwest, possibly light frost north to- | night; Thursday fair, cooler southeast.

Ohio—Showers and thunderstorms and with much cooler in north portion: hursday mostly cloudy and! much cooler, showers in south portion.

4 Kentucky—Cloudy in extreme east and | showers and thunderstorms and cooler in| entral portions tonight; Thursday showers and much cooler.

OTHER CITIES AT Station. Amarillo, Tex Bismarck, N. ston .. Chicago Cincinnati Cleveland, O. ... nver s haa Dodge City, Kas. ... Helena. Mont. a Jacksonville, Fla. ... Kansas City. Mo Little Rock. Ark Ss Angeles Miami, a. Minneapolis Mobile, Ala. New Orleans York . . Okla. ....Rai Neb.

, Ore Clear

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| commissioner said.

| police are under orders to shoot on | sight any unmuzzled or unleashed

| struction of the new fire station at | Washington-st and Tibbs-av.

| Houser Construction Co.,

been bitten by mad dogs or otherwise exposed to the, danger,’ the

Sheriff Frank Goble and Brazil

CONTRACTS AWARDED FOR FIRE STATION

Albert H. Losche, city purchasing agent, today announced that contracts have been awarded for con-

Successful bidders were E. W. Indianapolis, general construction, $15,970; R. J. Fitzpatrick, heating and ventilating, $1998; Keystone Electric Co., electrical work, $799; Strong] Brothers, plumbing, $1900. {

The State Tax Commission, in its | yearly report today, condemned the |

employment by county officials of “so-called tax ferrets” to recover unlisted or sequestered taxes. : The commission said that “officers should be more diligent in performing their duties and not leave the collection of taxes to socalled tax ferrets, who generally charge 35 to 40 per cent for their services.”

During the fiscal year ending

June 30, the commission saved tax- | | payers $754,142.79 by reducing pro- |

posed bond issues and additional appropriations, the report stated. “Officers should remember that they are the servants of the people and not the masters,” the report said, “and the question should not be how much money can be spent, but how great an amount of

service can be given to the taxpay-

ers for the amount that is spent.”

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